#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Mail::Bulkmail;
use File::Spec::Functions;
use Getopt::Std;

my %default = (
    dir => ".",
    addrfile => "addresslist.txt",
    mailfile => "mail.txt",
    errorlog => "error.log",
    successlog => "success.log",
    subject => q(Default subject),
    fromaddr => q(vpolyakov@katrillion.com),
);

getopts('a:d:e:hf:l:m:s:', \my %option);

$option{h} && die << "HELPMSG";
usage:    bulkmail [-a addrfile] [-d directory] [-e errorlog] [-h]
            [-f fromaddr] [-l successlog] [-m mailfile] [-s subject]

          All files must reside in the same directory.

defaults: -a $default{addrfile}  -d $default{dir}  -e $default{errorlo
+g}
          -f $default{fromaddr}  -l $default{successlog}  -m $default{
+mailfile}
          -s $default{subject}
HELPMSG

my $dir = $option{d} || $default{dir};

open(my $listfile, "<", catdir($dir, $option{a} || $default{addrfile})
+) or die "Couldn't open address list: $!\n";
chomp(my @address = <$listfile>);
close $listfile;

@address = map { $_->[0] }
           sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] }
           map { $_, lc((split /\@/)[-1]) }
           @address;

open(my $mailfile, "<", catdir($dir, $option{m} || $default{mailfile})
+) or die "Couldn't open message file: $!\n";
read $mailfile, my $mail, -s $mailfile;
close $mailfile;

$bulk = Mail::Bulkmail->new(
               LIST => \@address,
               Message => $mail,
               From => $option{f} || $default{fromaddr},
               Subject => $option{s} || $default{subject},
               BAD => catfile($dir, $option{e} || $default{errorlog}),
               GOOD =>  catfile($dir, $option{l} || $default{successlo
+g}),
               ERRFILE =>  catfile($dir, $option{e} || $default{errorl
+og}),
               HTML => 1,
               use_envelope => 1,
);
$bulk->HFM(1);
$bulk->envelope_limit(1000);
$bulk->header(qw(Content-type text/html));
$bulk->bulkmail;
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Of course you can get past the same-directory limitation by passing something like -a ../addresses.txt

Makeshifts last the longest.

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